Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film
Corinn Columpar
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Description for Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film
Paperback. Examines the politics of representing aboriginality. This title discusses the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of aboriginality. It analyzes how indigeneity is represented in cinema. It also explores contextual issues in filmmaking such as funding, personnel, modes of production, and means of distribution. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
This is a transnational study of aboriginality and cinema. ""Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film"" examines the politics of representing aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and indigenous theory to frame her discussion of the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of aboriginality. The result is a broad interdisciplinary analysis of how indigeneity is represented in cinema, supported by more than twenty rigorous and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary feature films by both first and fourth-world filmmakers in the United States, Canada, ... Read more
This is a transnational study of aboriginality and cinema. ""Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film"" examines the politics of representing aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and indigenous theory to frame her discussion of the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of aboriginality. The result is a broad interdisciplinary analysis of how indigeneity is represented in cinema, supported by more than twenty rigorous and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary feature films by both first and fourth-world filmmakers in the United States, Canada, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809329625
SKU
V9780809329625
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99-1
About Corinn Columpar
Corinn Columpar is assistant professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Toronto and author of Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film. Sophie Mayer is an independent scholar and author of The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love.
Reviews for Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film
"Unsettling Sights is a welcome addition to the emergent field of scholarship and criticism on Indigenous media.... Columpar's clear and incisive prose makes this book accessible across the range of relevant fields, from cinema/media to Indigenous and postcolonial studies." - Faye Ginsburg, author of Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in the Digital Age "This book's beautifully written close analyses of a ... Read more